Leland, NC, USA
Silent ball of light traveling at extremely fast speed, witnessed by 3 people.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-06
- Where
- Leland, NC, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 34.256, -78.045 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-leland-nc-2013-768d2f
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from Leland, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 198 sightings in 2013.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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